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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 35460" data-attributes="member: 2205">I was talking about LOH, and maybe I made a logical assumption that you didn't intend to make, but you suggested that if LOH was new, you wouldn't buy it because of problems with the CRs.  To me, that's the least of my worries.  Do I look at CRs to get a rough estimate of what to toss at a party?  Sure!  Do I follow them as doctrine, and use the experience tables exactly as printed?  No, I wouldn't.  I don't think they're anywhere near precise enough, and it doesn't take into account variables and situations that may make an encounter easier or harder than it would otherwise be.  Therefore, I use CRs as a --as we say in my industry-- swag: no more, no less.  Therefore, having one that is a little off is almost to be expected, not condemned.As for some of the other mechanical aspects that are often (although not specifically, I might note, by you) criticized are things like hit dice progression, having the right hit dice for the monster type, choosing the appropriate monster type given the description of the creature, etc.  I think these are all baloney criticisms.  Sure, they may technically be wrong, but so what?  Does it work?  If all I have to do is rename the monster type to satisfy some pedantic's idea of somebody's semantics, that's not a problem in my book.Harumph!  Now I'm in a bad mood about nit-pickiness.  Not only that, the original question I posed here remains unanswered: when is the book supposed to ship?</blockquote>

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